2chris2:Basically, the study found that they have no idea what causes differences in female orgasm rates. By itself useless, until someone does another study to find the actual cause.

Far from useless. They demonstrated that a lot of candidate explanations definitely don't cause the differences. In particular, they disproved the working hypothesis that difficulty achieving orgasm has a psychiatric basis ("FOD"), thereby saving a lot of women from (a) feeling guilty/at fault and (b) pointless therapy.

They also threw cold water on the theory that orgasm serves an evolutionary purpose, adding one more log to the bonfire of evolutionary psychology's Just So stories.

But you completely missed the real point of this research: The underlying assumption has been that low rates of orgasm are dysfunctional and that there is an "actual cause" to be found. Increasingly, it looks like that's not the case, and that rates of orgasm are no more functional than, say, having straight or curly hair.

czetie:2chris2: Basically, the study found that they have no idea what causes differences in female orgasm rates. By itself useless, until someone does another study to find the actual cause.

Far from useless. They demonstrated that a lot of candidate explanations definitely don't cause the differences. In particular, they disproved the working hypothesis that difficulty achieving orgasm has a psychiatric basis ("FOD"), thereby saving a lot of women from (a) feeling guilty/at fault and (b) pointless therapy.

They also threw cold water on the theory that orgasm serves an evolutionary purpose, adding one more log to the bonfire of evolutionary psychology's Just So stories.

But you completely missed the real point of this research: The underlying assumption has been that low rates of orgasm are dysfunctional and that there is an "actual cause" to be found. Increasingly, it looks like that's not the case, and that rates of orgasm are no more functional than, say, having straight or curly hair.

/Always fascinated by male mythologizing about female sexuality

Sounds like a get out of jail free card for failing in bed. "Honey, you're just genetically predisposed to have few orgasms."

MisterLoki:PizzaJedi81: So...is this gonna be a twin thread, or are y'all gonna just be yapping over the results?

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So this chicks has two heads, brains and personality's but they have only 1 set of sex organs. Since their minds are independent what if only one was horny and wanted to masturbate, how would that work? Inquiring minds want to know.

dennysgod:MisterLoki: PizzaJedi81: So...is this gonna be a twin thread, or are y'all gonna just be yapping over the results?

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So this chicks has two heads, brains and personality's but they have only 1 set of sex organs. Since their minds are independent what if only one was horny and wanted to masturbate, how would that work? Inquiring minds want to know.

That's actually an interesting question. It would be fascinating to wait until they're horny, then put headphones on them, attempting to turn one on and turn the other off and see what happens.

dennysgod:So this chicks has two heads, brains and personality's but they have only 1 set of sex organs. Since their minds are independent what if only one was horny and wanted to masturbate, how would that work?

Sex is driven by hormones. Hormones are shuttled through the body by the bloodstream. They share a common blood supply.

They can have distinct personalities, but their moods (including arousal) are going to coincide more often than not.

dennysgod:MisterLoki: PizzaJedi81: So...is this gonna be a twin thread, or are y'all gonna just be yapping over the results?

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So this chicks has two heads, brains and personality's but they have only 1 set of sex organs. Since their minds are independent what if only one was horny and wanted to masturbate, how would that work? Inquiring minds want to know.

They're wired to the same sensory systems I assume, I would assume they both feel the majority of sensations all over the body.

You do realize the brain evolved with everything else, right? This is more of a societal attitude extrapolated to a hypothesis than the whole of evolutionary psychology being incorrect. I'm always amazed at people that seem to think the brain is just a magic box and none of your genes or environmental could possibly effect anything in it.

Yes. You do realize that science is more than "people are this way because I say so, and it makes sense because of [digs through pile of buzzwords] evolution!" right?

This is more of a societal attitude extrapolated to a hypothesis than the whole of evolutionary psychology being incorrect. I'm always amazed at people that seem to think the brain is just a magic box and none of your genes or environmental could possibly effect anything in it.

This is more of a strawman than your argument being correct. I'm always amazed at people that see a criticism of the science (or lack thereof) in evolutionary psychology, and immediately interpret it as endorsing a nonsensical contrary position.

/"but, but, but, the brain evolved! Therefore evolutionary psychology is totes a real science, even though it can't actually predict anything and it moves goalposts to avoid being falsifiable!"